The songs are raw, one-room, one-track beauties. A mix of Patton tunes, Delta Bluesstandards and Jas. Mathus originals, its one of the most honest and nostalgic albums I've heard in a long time. This album also prominently features the gut bucket, an almost forgotten staple of early blues music.

The train came through town maybe once that afternoon, and when it was time, everybody would gather around, just to see that train pull up. They'd play around there, before and after the train came, and announce where they'd be that night, and that's where the crowd would
go.